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Using Pharmacogenomics to Optimize Mental Health Comprehensive Medication Management

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Activity Dates: 04/08/2024 - 04/08/2027

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Target Audience

If you are a pharmacist, nurse practitioner, or other health care professional involved in the comprehensive medication management of individuals living with mental health and/or substance use disorders, we invite you to participate in this online course.

Session Summary

Prescribing of psychotropic medications for mental health diagnoses has long been a “trial-and-error” approach guided by broad guideline recommendations, clinical indicators, and, subsequently, patient response and tolerability to treatment. Many patients require several trials before finding an effective medication they can tolerate. This approach oftentimes results in a delay in the control of symptoms or exposes patients to intolerable side effects. Pharmacogenomic testing provides a strategy to improve the likelihood of choosing safe and effective psychotropic medications. Over the past decade, more research has been published on the clinical applicability of pharmacogenomic testing, leading several organizations to publish recommendations on how these tests can be used in comprehensive medication management. This session will focus on the role psychiatric pharmacists can play in the implementation and application of pharmacogenomic testing in the mental health setting.

Consider making this session part of your BPS Continuing Professional Development plan! Please refer to the BPS Psychiatric Pharmacy Content Outline to see how this activity may align.

Course Requirements

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  • Review the full content of the activity and reflect upon its teachings.
  • Complete the post-test at the end of the activity no later than the closing activity date.
  • Complete the evaluation at the end of the activity.
  • If necessary, complete the post-test retest no later than the closing activity date.
  • Receive a passing grade (70%).
  • Provide the necessary details in your profile to ensure correct reporting by AAPP to CPE Monitor.

Upon successful completion, ACPE credit is reported within 24 hours to CPE Monitor although transcripts can be retrieved by participants online in their ACPE Transcript.

Faculty Information

Kristen Ward, PharmD, BCPP

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Learning Objectives

  1. Assess the impact of pharmacogenomic testing on patient outcomes in psychiatry.
  2. Incorporate health literacy considerations in education to patients about mental health pharmacogenomic testing results.
  3. Apply pharmacogenomic results to psychiatric treatment decisions in comprehensive medication management.

Continuing Education Credit and Disclosures

Activity Dates: 04/08/2024 - 04/08/2027
ACPE Contact Hours: 1
ACPE Number: 0284-0000-24-024-H01-P (Application)
Nursing Credit Reminder: Note that ACPE credit is accepted for ANCC Certification Renewal and AANPCB advanced practice provider content. For specific questions related to your organization's acceptance of ACPE continuing education units, please contact your organization directly.

ACPEThe American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

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